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1/24/15

Located in Samcheongdong Area, this cafe is not only serves coffee, but they also sell some Cath Kidston stuffs, and! All the cafe interiors are filled with Cath Kidston's home furnishing products!

Here's the address :

Seoul, Jongro-gu Hwadong 138-7 Bukchon-ro 5gil 43

(tel : 02-722-4657)

서울특별시 종로구 화동 138-7 북촌로 5길 43

They had a lot of varieties in their menu, I'm quite surprised! But in the we still opted for the Afternoon Tea Set even though it's like dinner time already when we arrived. But! Their tea sets aren't limited at noon hours so no worries ;)

Among hundreds and hundreds of cafe in Samcheongdong, this cafe is worth to check out. Their cafe branding is out of this world, everything even the smallest things are from Cath's collection and most are for sale too. Cath's trademark pattern is everywhere, look at the cupcake's wrapping paper!

Being one of Moonshot's representative product, I can't miss my chance to check these stuff out. I've had the darkest shade in my mind for a while. But when I saw the whole collection.. Hemmm the pinks caught in my eyes, but since I decided to purchase a nude shade for the lipstick, so I finally go for the vampy one!

Again, the product packaging is super simple, with black matte coated cap. AND THE SUPER CUTE PIXEL LOGO ON THE TOP. Can't miss that. I had a trouble catching the exact color of this product because it always turns black on photos. But you can clearly see from the photo above ^ that the shade is more to a vampy red color.

This product has the funniest weirdest applicator ever. It's huge and wide, not like your usual applicator.

Now I get it why they make the applicator like that, because the product texture is very, gooey? The texture is very thick and you definitely need a bigger applicator to be able to scoop the actual product out from the tube.

I don't think I can explain the texture with words, because I can't think something that comparable with this product. I thought the samples on the store went bad (?) so the texture is very gluey and chunky, but the actual product is actually like that.

Though it looks shiny on the swatch, as time goes it will become matte. I think the best description to this product is a matte lip tint! Because it's matte, but it stains the lips, rather than giving another layer to the lips like other lip cream product.

And, you have to work in layers to get a maximum pigmentation out of the product. And even I still haven't master the blending trick for this product. Oh! I think you can use this product for blush easier because of the gooey texture, I tried in on my cheek (even though the color is probably too strong for a cheek color) and I guess they turned out ok? Cheek swatch below!

Overall, I personally like this product, it does take time to be totally used to its texture. As it's a unique one, never encounter something like this before. The lasting power is nice, it slightly stain the lips, and the matte finish is really nice! It's not drying, even after all the gloss is gone, the product didn't settle on my lips line.

On a side note, this product is recently dubbed as Lee Sung Kyung's lip tint, as she introduced this product on "Get it Beauty" and people started to look for the product. The one that she has isn't in my shade, but I think the product is great! :)

Nothing special from the packaging, just a simple (and bulky) pots. Though one of my Korean friend successfully depoted these shadows to a eyeshadow palette, I don't have a palette that can contain these so I'm stuck with these bulky pots :(

Inside, there's a black something that use to press down the product so that it keep it place secure on the pots.

Look how bling-bling those eyeshadows are O_O Though the appearance is similar to L'oreal infallible eyeshadow (?) I can't compare those because I never tried L'oreal one, but they sure look similar. The texture is like cream, but not exactly creamy too, but anyway if you pressed it down it will leave a dent over the product.

It's more like glitters filled eyeshadow, rather than pure glitters, because they still have a shade color (?), like it's not only glitters but there's also some cream eyeshadow that goes with it.

#3 is the lightest out of the other 4 shades I got, it's a champagne beige shade.

#10 is a neutral golden shade - perfect for lid color

#18 is my least favorite shade from the bunch, it's a cool tone pink color. It's a new addition for their F/W collection.

#20 is a dark reddish brown shade, loving this one too <3

With these shadows, I think you can achieve a super bling-bling effect like when using a loose glitter makeup, which can be a big mess most of the time. The biggest problem when using glitters might be the fallouts, and these have so much less fallouts (almost none).

I thought this product will make my eyes look like disco ball, but in reality it's less intense than that and it looks more like shimmers than chunky glitter on the eyes.

super bling bling!

LEFT using #3 in the inner corner RIGHT using #10 and #20 in the lid

Sadly the swatches on my eyes aren't showing the glitter effect as much :(

Overall, I'm loving these products more than I thought I will be. Especially because they're not as extremely glittery as I thought it would like. It's more like I can give a small accent point on my eyes, like for putting some on my inner corner, or a tap on the middle of my eye lid.

When using these eyeshadow for my lids, I like to wet my brush with eyedrops first so that it apply more pigmented. Nevertheless the shade shows up ok (I don't use eyedrops / eye primer for my swatches)

For you Korean style makeup lovers, I think this is a must have product! It's a big item too among Korean beauty bloggers (or among people in general - one of Aritaum's best selling item!). As for recently, I'm really enjoying shimmer look on my eyes so I think I've used these babies more than I should ^^;;;

Check out the link for their full collection! :) Thankyou so much for reading ;)